FAIRMONT — Upstairs on the second floor of the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, the Braxton County Monster ...

A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes ...

Newly found footprints show at least two hominid species were walking through the submerged edge of a lake in the Turkana Basin in Kenya at the same time. The discovery, from the renowned hominid ...

Although there is only one hominid species in existence today, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of human evolution, a wide range of members of the species have existed. One activity scientists ...

The technical name of the hominid species Lucy belonged to – for which she was the first known example – was Australopithecus afarensis, but that was neither known at the time, nor is it so ...

Evidence continues to mount against the interpretation of a cave filled with ancient hominid bones as a sacred burial ground, one used long before modern humans were burying their own dead.

Evidence continues to mount against the interpretation of a cave filled with ancient hominid bones as a sacred burial ground, one used long before modern humans were burying their own dead. The ...